Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-12-16
Criminal.

WILLIAM ii. WoLcorT, a Bloomington
murderer, has been sentenced to five
years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
A CoUNTERFEITEB of the five pound
notes of the Bank of England has been
arrested at San Francisco, Cal.
IT is hinted that the will of Wilbur F.
Story has been tampered with.
THREE negroes were lynched at Rives,
Tenn, Wednesday, for committing a
brutal assault on ten-year' old girl.
HERR Mosr, the vicious anarchist, has
been admitted to bail, awaiting the de-
cision for q new trial.
WEDNESDAY, at Riverhead, l.. l., Francis
Asbury Pawkins, age %, who killed his
mother because she objected to his in
tended marriage, was found guilty of
murder in the first degree.
THERE were 355 persons arrested in the
United States during the present year
for violation of the laws against counter
feiting, etc. Seventy were convicted and
sentenced to imprisonment.
TUESDAY morning at Wichita, Kan, j.
R. Johnson, a wealthy citizen, killed his
wife with bullet and then shot himself
The cause OF the double trsdgedy is said
to be insanity, superinduced b : prolonged
illness.
AT Montrose, Ia, Thursday afternoon,
Thomas Ellis, Jr, shot his wife and killed
himself. The woman, who IS in a precar-
ious condition, had begun suit for di-
vorcs, alleging that Ellis had another
wife living when he married her.
Lou" MURRAY vas convicted at Buffalo
Mimi, of attempting TO assault Miss
Mary Sylvester, and was sentenced to ten
years at hard labor. The young woman
escaped from Murray by jumping from
a third-story window, sustaining severe
injuries.
FRANK KLEIN, chief OF gang of train
robbers, who went through a train near
Little Rock, Ark, four years ago, has
just been arrested in Indian Territory.
A United States marshal arrested Joseph
Wright at Ell Paso, Texas, Monday, charg-
ing him with being accessory to the Ari.
zona train rohberies.
In the Columbus (0hio) Criminal Court
Monday special grand jury was asked
for to investigate certain persons al
legged to have been connected with the
tally sheet frauds Of 1885. 1t is said
some OF the men implicated have turned
STATES evidence, and the Prosecuting At
torney says he has enough testimony to
convict.
A CRIMINAL action was begun at Water
loo, lows, under the prohibitory liquor
law, against a drug firm that had been in
dicted for maintaining q nuisance because
they sold intoxicating liquors. The
Judge discharged the defendants, holding
that the only method of proceeding
against druggist convicted of keeping
| Intoxicating liquors for sale was by a
civil action for damages.
HARTMAN PLAAa, a politician of local
nots and Marshal of South Peoria, ILL.,,
wa. imprisoned Wednesday on . charge
| of numbering his fa.her-in-law, Joseph
Colditz, in 1850. The latter's daughter
and another woman prefer the chargs,
alleging that they s~ere falsely, to shell
ter P.aag, at the Coroner's inquest. TIE
| prisoner says it is a csse of biackmail.
WHILE John Feeny, a policeman q.
| Union hill, n. j., Was in a saloon at tha,
place Tuesday, bomb was thrown into
the room and exploded under q table al
which Feeny had been sitting a uiemen'
before. The table was thrown into ths
air and two windows of the saloon were
shattered. Feepy is the officer Who inter
fered with the anarchist meeting som,
Sundays ago and arrested Tuben, ore o.
the anarchists.